After seven years of starring as the cruise director on the ship that promised love, this actor was shown a lot of hate when she was tossed overboard for her very public battle with cocaine.

After sinking her career and personal life, the now 70-year-old star went from being TV’s most beloved ship steward to a cheese steward for a Seattle-based catering company.

Keep reading to learn the identity of this actor!

When The Love Boat first set sail in 1977, the TV series fulfilled its promise of being “something for everyone.”

Every week, fans tuned in to watch the adventures of their favorite crew on the Pacific Princess, including Captain Stubing and his daughter Vicki (Gavin McLeod and Jill Whelan), Doc (Bernie Kopell), Gopher (Fred Grandy), bartender Isaac (Ted Lange) and the cruise director, Cynthia Lauren Tewes, who was 23 when she started her role as Julie McCoy.

In season eight of the hit TV series, the Golden Globe nominated Tewes, who won the role over 100 other candidates, was notably absent from the ship. The star was replaced by Patricia Klous, who played her on-screen sister and new cruise director, Judy McCoy.

Speaking with TV Guide in 1985, executive producer Douglas Cramer explained why Tewes was fired: “There were severe problems with Lauren. Not just recently, but for all of the seven years she was with The Love Boat… It was terribly disrupting.”

Tewes was fired from the show in 1984 for her addiction with cocaine.

“All that money didn’t go into a bank. It went into my nose,” Tewes said in the same interview. “I wanted to be one of the gang. I am ashamed to say it, but it’s true. The first time I took cocaine I had just gotten the job on The Love Boat and I was on my way to a party. My date said, ‘Let’s do drugs.’ And I said, ‘What the heck?’

“The feeling it gave me was incredible euphoria. You think you are fine. You think you are stronger, braver. I thought it gave me the courage I missed. It was like going to Oz and asking for courage. But instead, I got cocaine.”

In 2014, Tewes shared with Oprah Winfrey her struggles with cocaine addiction.

”I felt guilty, I felt shamed and humiliation and disgusted and disappointment, I knew that I had gotten myself into a situation I couldn’t get out of by myself,” she said. “I secretly begged and begged and begged for someone to help me. For me it was an issue with cocaine in the 1970’s and early 1980’s when it was a popular drug but if you ask anybody, I was the only one doing it in all of Hollywood. It was just me and nobody wanted to help me.”

Working through her addiction alone, the actor of the 1981 film Eyes of a Stranger started withdrawal in 1980, but it took her a few years to become sober.

“It just sunk in that I was not having a good time, that I was killing myself and that I was spending all my money. So, I stopped completely,” she says in the interview with TV Guide.